Windows 2012 R2 Certification for RAID Inc.
And 24- or 60-bay Ability Storage Servers
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on March 28, 2014 at 2:54 pmRAID, Inc. has earned a Windows 2012 R2 certification.
The certification indicates that RAID Inc.’s hardware and software solutions meet Microsoft standards for compatibility and recommended practices with the respective Windows Server OSs.
RAID Inc.’s Ability Storage Servers have earned the certification because they are supported in Hyper-V environment. RAID Inc. certified products include the 4U 60-bay Ability EBOD and the 2U 24-bay Ability EBOD SSD.
The Ability Storage Server is a dense, performance solution designed for, Windows Server 2012, various I/O server and ZFS applications. The server nodes [E5 2600 family] provide capabilities to retrieve data from 60 full-height drives and protect against data loss in the event of power faults using an optional backup battery pack. In addition, a nontransparent bus allows bridging of two server nodes for redundancy or computational expansion.
RAID Inc.’s 2U 24-bay Ability SSD EBOD is a purpose-built storage solution designed for performance storage application utilizing the 6G SAS architecture with ability to scale in capacity. It offers performance, space saving density, ‘green’ energy efficiency and 24×7 HA redundancy of key components.
The 4U 60-bay Ability EBOD solution enables massive data capacity applications, at a price/performance point per gigabyte that meets a range of requirements. With tiering functionality enabled through R2 and 8 external SAS ports makes this solution a fit for any Microsoft applications.
“The Windows 2012 R2 certification provides a valuable, external reaffirmation of the quality of RAID Inc.’s Ability Storage Server solutions,” says RAID Inc. CEO Bob Picardi. “We are excited to offer our customers top-of-line solutions, warranting continued Microsoft support.“